Where does Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena ranks #6,772 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena hold?

Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 43 technology areas.

What is Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena's Innovation Score?

Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena has an Innovation Score of 52.2 out of 100 (top 10% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena focus on?

Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena's top technology area is G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS) with 21 patents. Grants appear in 43 CPC subclasses total.

Is Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena's recent grant velocity is -20% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena's patents?

Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena's patents average 14.8 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 43 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Friedrich-schiller-universitat ranks #6,772 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 43 technology areas.

#6,772
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 10%
by Innovation Score (52.2/100): 14.8
avg claims per patent: -20%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6772 · Foreign Corporation #6,772 · 49 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,772/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Endress+Hauser Condu…
CPC-WIDE G02B · 43 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -20% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Endress+hauser Conducta Gesellschaft Fuer Mess- Und Regeltechnik Mbh + Co. KG (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Friedrich-schiller-u… · this assignee

52
Leedarson Lighting · near

52
Movidius · near

52
Universitat Zurich · near

52
University Of South… · near

52
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena stamps GRANTS-SMALL, UPPER-Q, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-WIDE, INNOV-PAR, CLAIMS-RICH, TYPE-FRNCORP, VEL-DOWN, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #6,772 of 50,000; Innovation Score 52.2/100 sits in the top 10% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Endress+hauser Conducta Gesellschaft Fuer Mess- Und Regeltechnik Mbh + Co. KG (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena has been granted 49 US utility patents between 2015 and 2025, placing Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena at #6,772 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 43 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 14.8 claims per patent with primary concentration in G02B (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS). As a Foreign Corporation, Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Friedrich-schiller-universitat sits between Endress+hauser Conducta Gesellschaft Fuer Mess- Und Regeltechnik Mbh + Co. KG (49 patents, rank #6,768) and Grenzebach Maschinenbau Gmbh (49 patents, rank #6,776) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 52.2/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 20 grants, compared with 25 in the 2015–2019 window, a -20% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The Foreign Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena's 14.8 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 43 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

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49
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49
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49
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49
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49
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49

What this shows Friedrich-schiller-universitat holds 49 patents at rank #6,772, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Friedrich-schiller-universitat

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,772 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G02B (Optical Elements)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Friedrich-schiller-universitat's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Friedrich-schiller-universitat, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Movidius Limited 52 University Of South Alabama 52 Leedarson Lighting Co., Ltd. 52 Universitat Zurich 52

Friedrich-schiller-universitat's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

52 Top 10% higher than 90% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	10.2%
2016	9	18.4%
2017	1	2.0%
2018	4	8.2%
2019	6	12.2%
2020	3	6.1%
2021	4	8.2%
2022	7	14.3%
2023	2	4.1%
2024	4	8.2%
2025partial year	4	8.2%

Which technologies does Friedrich-schiller-universitat Jena patent most?

G02B - OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS 21

H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IN WAVE RANGES OTHER THAN OPTICAL 16

G02F - OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS 8

A61K - PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL OR TOILETRY PURPOSES 5

G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 4

B23K - SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM 3

A61P - SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS 3

C03C - CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GLASSES, GLAZES OR VITREOUS ENAMELS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF GLASS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR FILAMENTS MADE FROM GLASS, MINERALS OR SLAGS; JOINING GLASS TO GLASS OR OTHER MATERIALS 3

C07D - HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS 2

B29D - PRODUCING PARTICULAR ARTICLES FROM PLASTICS OR FROM SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE 2

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 2

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 2

H01M - PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY 2

Y02E - REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION 2

C03B - MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES 2

Top 15 of 43 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#6,772

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

52.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

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